You do look surprisingly good for your age, old man. I wasn’t sure that you’d be able to keep it up that long.

[ Of course Barnaby is going to force Kotetsu to up the ante. He always does; it may as well be his job. It would be a very successful side business, if he ever decided to capitalise on it. For now, it’s worth it simply to see the look on Kotetsu’s face… and on November’s, for that matter.

His eyebrows raise slightly as he listens to the other man’s retort. It’s not as though he’s wrong -- far from it, in Barnaby’s oh-so humble point of view. But hearing November talk about him like that was something else entirely. He sees the knowing look and returns it easily. Kotetsu makes himself an easy targe for being teased; who’s to say what’s fair and what isn’t? ]

Are you trying to get at something here, November?

[ Or perhaps, should he say get somewhere? ]